Libor Kubín As of May 3, readers can download the first purely tablet magazine - the weekly - to their tablets Touch. It is the first magazine of the Tablet Media publishing house.
"Compared to existing tablet titles in the Czech Republic, but also abroad, this is a groundbreaking project, because Dotyk fully uses the tablet platform. The articles are enriched with interactive graphs, videos, audios, animations, puzzles, games, etc. are being prepared. The introduction of tablets into the media will cause a milestone similar to the invention of letterpress. I am proud of the fact that we are entering the market with a weekly magazine that is not only the first in the Czech Republic, but also one of the first in the world to use tablet options," comments publisher Michal Klíma on the release of the first issue.
"With an experienced editorial team, creative graphics and programmers, we prepare content that is interesting and entertaining. Readers will be enriched by a selection of articles from Newsweek and other American sources to which we have the rights. We want tablet users to look forward to every Friday when Dotyk comes out," adds Eva Hanáková, editor-in-chief of the Dotyk weekly and editorial director of Tablet Media, as
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The central theme of the first issue is the text A nation without heroes. Why is it dangerous when a nation is without heroes? And who did children and students name most often in our survey? Article Polish blood deals with the current dispute between Czechs and Poles about the quality of food and looks for the roots of mutual sympathies and antipathies. Writer Eva Střížovská writes about the town of West, which was recently hit by a terrifying explosion, in a report How the Czechs settled the West. In an interview with professor Vladimír Beneš, Dotyk presents a top Czech neurosurgeon.
The editors selected an article from the American Newsweek for the first issue of Dotyk Throw away that list.
The last part of the magazine offers relaxing topics. He will take the reader to Rišikeš, the city that changed the Beatles, guide him through Vietnamese bistros in the Czech Republic, and point out the best apps about wines. In our interactive test, readers can check what they know about the First Republic. And at the end, a feuilleton from the pen of the writer Ivan Klíma is included.
In each issue of the Dotyk tablet weekly, you will find sections:
- ENTER – dataroom (interactively displayed data in their content context), photo reports, calendar of interesting events for the next week, samples from foreign articles in the form of annotations and links to the original text.
- HYDEPARK – opinion section of the weekly. Contributors include renowned scientists, economists, representatives of the cultural community and students.
- FOCUS – the main part of the magazine contains longer journalistic sections, the main topics of the given issue. The Focus also includes translations from the weekly Newsweek, interviews with personalities or profiles of successful Czechs working abroad, for example.
- INSPIRATION – is the last section and is dedicated to readers' free time. There will be articles about travel, food, architecture, knowledge tests, reviews, secret tips from celebrities, articles dedicated to technology, etc. You will also find games for children. The final feature is a column, which will be written for Dotyk by the current and former chairmen of the Czech Center of the International PEN Club.
Dotyk weekly will be published every Friday. It is intended for owners of iPads and tablets with the Android operating system. The app and magazine content can be downloaded for free in the App Store and Google Play.
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More information can be found at tabletmedia.cz. Readers can also register here if they want to receive Dotyk news.
Tablet Media, as is the first Czech publishing house that focuses on publishing magazines only for tablets. It was founded in January 2013. Its boss is Michal Klíma, who managed the largest publishing houses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for more than 20 years. Between 1991 and 2011, he was a board member and vice president of the World Newspaper Association (WAN). Eva Hanáková is the editor-in-chief of Dotyk and director of the Tablet Media editorial office. In the years 2007–2011, she worked as the editor-in-chief of the Ekonom weekly. Before that, she managed the Enterprises and markets section of Hospodářské noviny.
Newsweek is an American magazine that belongs to the world's classics among news weeklies, it has been on the market since 1933. In December of last year, it stopped publishing in paper form, and since January of this year it is only available digitally - as a tablet magazine.
